CITI: Here Are The 20 Best Stocks In Americahttp://www.businessinsider.com/citi-us-top-20-buy-rated-stocks-2014-4/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Mon, 19 Mar 2018 23:21:43 -0400Mamta Badkarhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53569247eab8eacf779bb13eTheElephantInTheRoomIs...Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:01:11 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53569247eab8eacf779bb13e
...how substantial a position Citi holds in each of these stocks just prior to this proclamation.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5355e0feeab8ea1e4dbbdbbdDFrawn111Mon, 21 Apr 2014 23:24:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5355e0feeab8ea1e4dbbdbbd
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During the crash CITI was shown to be corrupt, like all the other big firms -- especially JP.
Trust at your own risk...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53554f0c6bb3f7931fa35745mikej77Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:02:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53554f0c6bb3f7931fa35745
Look closely at BXMT- check that dividend!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53553ae769bedd8319083f73Adam NonMon, 21 Apr 2014 11:36:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53553ae769bedd8319083f73
What's the formula for BI's estimated return?
At first blush, these target prices are -- with a few glaring exceptions like GOOG/L -- a one standard deviation move over a 252 day period (ish) which would demand that the investor instead employ a non-directional option trade strategy that could be repeated month to month, creating recurring income, reducing cost basis (for an investor wanting to accumulate positions in these stocks) with far less capital and far less risk.
I think with markets at all time highs, any of these "best buy" lists should be balanced with a complementary list of "sure sells" so that the portfolio has some balance of long and short to participate profitably should the markets sell off any time in the next year (which doesn't seem like an unreasonable expectation or an unwarranted precaution.)
If this selection of 20 (or the whole 50) symbol was an example basket for a portfolio (which seems to be the implied recommendation by these published "Analyst" lists) I wonder if the aggregate beta or the underlying correlation creates extraordinary risk.
It would be interesting to see this basket in some sort of conventional management to demonstrate how a real person could acquire these positions and then take profits. After all, with a promised return of 20% or more, surely the game is to take profits and move on. I just wonder what step two might be in the plan -- once you've started to take profits, do you divest yourself of the position, take a percentage of the number of shares or the dollar value or adjust to rebalance the portfolio for all positions (thereby creating a weighting factor over time.)
In other words, it's easy to throw up a list of (almost all) household names for any portfolio and then say "what the heck, it's a momentum play ... what's going up will probably continue to go up ..." Only, with the markets at all-time highs, the two-edged sword of beta might cut to the bone.